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I just emailed John, the biologist who put out the fact sheet. It seems that some other samples came in from Mass that sound similar to what I saw but where attributed to a eriophyid mite. What I saw was definitely fatal though. I'm kinda disappointed that I did not pursue it more last summer. Busy time of year to be running plant samples back and forth to the ag station if you know what i mean.

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You are probably not going to miss much on the "field trip".
The leaves here in NE Ohio are at least 2 - 3 weeks behind normal.
I don't have anything leafed out.
A couple maples are just starting to break out of buds.

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Background:
Holden Arboretum (just East of Cleveland Ohio) features 3500 acres of cultivated gardens and native forests, with over 20 miles of trails. The Arboretum also features the Canopy Walk, an elevated walkway 65 feet above the forest floor, and the Emergent Tower, a wooden tower that rises 120 feet above the forest floor for views of the surrounding landscape, and Lake Erie ~15 miles away.
A couple years ago, Holden Arboretum and Cleveland Botanical Garden joined together to make up Holden Forests & Gardens.
They do a lot the research & publish a quarterly magazine for the public.
"Forests Gardens, Winter 2018-19"

Article on Beech Tree Leaf Disease - Early identification of disease: (See pg 7 of 9 in Link; and See pages 12-13 in magazine article)

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More than 50 arborists and botanists gathered for a workshop at the West Creek Reservation in Parma on Wednesday to discuss potential causes and cures for beech leaf disease, which was discovered in Lake County in 2012, and since then has spread to nine other counties, Pennsylvania, New York...

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More than 50 arborists and botanists gathered for a workshop at the West Creek Reservation in Parma on Wednesday to discuss potential causes and cures for beech leaf disease, which was discovered in Lake County in 2012, and since then has spread to nine other counties, Pennsylvania, New York...